Word: workroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Population-wise, the city of the future may be little more than a glorified workroom, railroad station and parking lot-crowded by day, empty and echoing by night. Around the hollow center, circle on concentric circle, would lie the teeming suburbs. Beyond them, only the open farm land and the lonely lights of farmhouses, sprouting television antennas...
...spite of a lightning flash that skittered down some loose wires and across his basement workroom, freckled, 13-year-old Dick Jorgensen of Chevy Chase, Md. managed to put together a workable TV set one afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...